Poetry of Opposition and Revolution: Dryden to WordsworthClarendon Press, 1996 - 272 pages This is a major study of the relation between poetry and politics from the 1688 Revolution to the early years of the nineteenth century, focusing in particular on the works of Dryden, Pope, Johnson, and Wordsworth. Building on his argument in Poetry and the Realm of Politics: Shakespeare to Dryden (also available from OUP), Erskine-Hill argues that the major tradition of political allusion is not, as has often been argued, that of political allegory and overtly political poems, but rather a more shifting and less systematic practice, often involving equivocal or multiple reference. |
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... Human Wishes is a highly political poem showing a deep concern with the processes of history . It explores two ways in which a state might suddenly change or be changed : the fall of a Favourite or a revolution brought about by military ...
... Human Wishes is a highly political poem showing a deep concern with the processes of history . It explores two ways in which a state might suddenly change or be changed : the fall of a Favourite or a revolution brought about by military ...
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... Human Wishes may well be regarded with comprehensive disbelief . Yet it is supported by the anti - Hanoverian character of London and Marmor Norfolciense , by the obliquely allusive poetic modes established by Dryden and Pope which ...
... Human Wishes may well be regarded with comprehensive disbelief . Yet it is supported by the anti - Hanoverian character of London and Marmor Norfolciense , by the obliquely allusive poetic modes established by Dryden and Pope which ...
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... Human Wishes . " On the basis of evidence outside The Lives of the Poets it is of course clear that Johnson's political position changed from what it was in the late 1730s - indeed The Vanity of Human Wishes may be regarded as gaining ...
... Human Wishes . " On the basis of evidence outside The Lives of the Poets it is of course clear that Johnson's political position changed from what it was in the late 1730s - indeed The Vanity of Human Wishes may be regarded as gaining ...
Contents
Drydens Later Plays and Poems | 17 |
Early Poems to The Rape of the Locke | 57 |
The Rape of the Lock to The Dunciad | 77 |
Copyright | |
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